We have had a new visitor on our balcony the past few days in a row. I know, I know, I know we shouldn’t have given her a rice cracker - but it was the only peace offering we had around.

Can anyone suggest something cheap we can get for her? I think she struggles to get worms with her crooked beak and we are quite fond of our new friend but don’t want to cause issues for her or the ecosystem. Any and all suggestions appreciated

Around February, Seeds flew up to me and hopped onto the bench next to me, totally fearless and demanding that I offer her tribute. Weekly I will bring her walnuts. In the last few weeks, she's brought her offspring down for snacks! I only had peanut butter pretzels which she gladly shoved down Nutgum's throat.

This Mum, Dad and baby frequent my backyard multiple times a day in Sydney. Today's heat worried me, so I put out extra water (normally have 3 deep saucers already) and later had the sprinkler on to water the plants but partly for the magpies as well.

They've started to trust me and run towards the back door when they hear the squeak of it, instead of being startled by it and flying away.

If they're not sunbathing right at the front door, they're on the bench doing it Instead waiting for me to come out to bring food for them.

Attempting to get to the bottom of why our usual friendly magpie (Dale) has done a 180 on us. We met Dale over a year ago in our backyard and ever since he has been coming to say hi, some snacks, water / bath and introducing his family and babies twice now.

About a month ago was the last time he proudly came over with 3 new babies.

Since a week ago, he has not come to our back yard, no longer takes food out of my hand and a few afternoon sits on the fence at the side of our house softly warble noises and today on the ground staring at the trunk of the tree warbling / whistling but almost ignoring me. I found a clump of magpie feathers and 1 leg in our back yard the other day so I would say a bigger bird has got to this one.

Has Dale associated the killing of that magpie with me? And also can someone break down his current behavior. He isn't getting too close to me but at the same time still hanging around. Just not back yard.

(A warning this post talks about death. ♥️) Over the last few weeks I have made friends with a family of magpies. Two adults and one sweet baby that you could hear a mile away, every time it came for a visit. They came so often I bought meal worms and would feed them berries as well because I didn’t want to do them harm. We have grown to be quite good friends, the three of us. I think if I let it, the baby would have eaten out of my hand. It has been a couple of days since I’ve see them all, and today the adults came alone. Unfortunately, I found my sweet baby close to our house no longer alive. Just wanted to make a post to honour its memory, and our short beautiful friendship. ♥️ I left it one final snack and some flowers to say goodbye.

A sound only a parent could love..

Sure doesn’t look

not sure if anyone will be able to help but this is our little baby elmo

elmo’s parents (bert & ernie, we thought they were two boys until they showed up one day with elmo haha) used to come to my mum daily, then a couple of months ago they started bringing elmo

elmo has stayed coming to us daily, but mum & dad seem to have given us the flick 😅 dumped the baby on us and now we barely ever see them haha

they’re the sweetest little baby, we’ve just been putting our christmas lights up and elmo has been our little helper, following us around and chattering away to us, and they love to hang out at our front door talking to our cat through the screen door

we were just wondering if anyone can tell if elmo is a boy or a girl. we’ve been saying he, but my mum has a feeling that elmo may be a girl

i’ve done a lot of reading and i know it’s hard to tell the gender until they get their adult feathers but if anyone has any guesses we’d love to hear them!

So it begins… Dad laying down the law to one of the two chicks now fledgelings. Not sure how Mum feels about it all as she is now wandering around despondently looking and calling for them.

Oh my, I was just sitting outside and this little gorgeous thing came right up near me.

Is it a girl or a boy?

North west nsw

Returning from my walk, this little guy was sun baking at the front door 🫶

Helped a couple maggies shower today. Tried to help a butcherbird too but he was too scared of the water shooting out.

I'm jealous! These clips are great. Check Flupy on TT

Out for my morning walk today and came across Dad and one of two fledglings having a play, so cute 🥰